ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESES ON TRADE UNIONS*
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ADDENDUM TO THE THESES
January 4, 1922

Pass this on to comrade Molotov without recopying it.

These conclude the theses subject to publication, i.e., the draft to be submitted to the commission and then to the Politburo.

By special resolution of the Politburo, I propose adopting the following resolution from the draft in this form:

The Politburo instructs the Orgburo to establish, under the Orgburo of the Central Committee, a special commission for the verification and renewal of the leading cadres (and, if possible, all Communist workers) of the trade union movement from the standpoint of strengthening the struggle against petty-bourgeois, Socialist Revolutionary-Menshevik, and anarchist influences and deviations. This commission must complete its work (at least in large part) by the forthcoming, Eleventh, Congress of the RCP and submit a report on it to the Party Congress.

Lenin

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NOTE FROM I. V. STALIN
January 6, 1922

Comrade Lenin,

The theses on trade unions seem to me excellent. One passage in the theses concerning strikes in state enterprises may provoke objections from practical workers, for which reason it would be advisable either to develop it in detail or to make it more general and vague, but on the whole, it seems to me the theses have turned out quite well.

I. Stalin

*See "On the Role and Tasks of Trade Unions Under the Conditions of the New Economic Policy" (Collected Works, vol. XXVII, pp. 147–156).

LENIN COLLECTED WORKS

TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE*
January 9, 1922

I request assistance in the purchase and supply of grain for the village of Alakaevka in Samara Province, provided by its peasant representative Sergei Frolov, as well as assistance in supplying the village with seeds for spring sowing. Since I was personally acquainted with this village, I would consider it politically useful that the peasants not depart without some reliable aid.

I request that you endeavor to arrange this and inform me of what has been accomplished.

Lenin

ON THE DIRECTIVES OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B) TO COMMUNISTS OF TURKESTAN

TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO I. V. STALIN***
January 12, 1922

Comrade Stalin,

Gusev is leaving in 1½ hours; I have just spoken with him by telephone about everything necessary; in half an hour he will be at Krasikov's apartment and will await your telephone message. The draft circular of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkestan**** I have just read and am fully in agreement with it. It would be good to approve it today and have Gusev take it with him.

Lenin

NOTE FROM I. V. STALIN
January 12, 1922

Comrade Lenin,

I do not have another copy of the Turkestan circular; please send it to me at the first opportunity.

Stalin

*The document was dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Published from a typewritten copy.

**V. I. Lenin lived on a farm near the village of Alakaevka in spring and summer from 1889–1893.

***The document was dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Published from a typewritten copy.

****In the circular letter of the Central Committee of the RCP(B), the tasks of Communists in Turkestan were defined in the sphere of national policy under the conditions of the NEP.